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Lost Vegas Antiques
23 Sunday Oct 2016
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Las Vegas, Nevada
05 Tuesday Jan 2016
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Some of my posts related to Las Vegas:
- AREA15 and Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart
- Beverly Green Neighborhood
- First Las Vegas Post Office (DUP Marker)
- Fremont Street
- Graceland Wedding Chapel
- Huntridge Theater
- John S. Park Historic District
- Las Vegas Fort (DUP Marker)
- Las Vegas Grammar School
- Las Vegas High School Historic District
- Las Vegas High School Neighborhood Historic District
- Las Vegas LDS Temple
- Las Vegas Strip
- The Liberace Mansion
- Little Ethiopia
- Lost Vegas (Antique Store)
- Madame Tussauds Las Vegas
- Mob Museum in the Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse
- Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park
- Original Homesite of “Pop” Squires
- Parks in Las Vegas
- Southern Highlands
- Sphere
- Las Vegas posts sorted by address
First Las Vegas Post Office
29 Thursday May 2014
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John Steele, one of the original L.D.S. missionaries, secured a mail grant for the Las Vegas Mission. Documents to establish the post office, and, appointing William Bringhurst Postmaster, were brought brought from Salt Lake City by Benjamin H. Hulse, January 10, 1856. This office was continued until the mission was abandoned in 1857. Mr. Steele acted as Postmaster under President Bringhurst.
The text above is from Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #170, located at Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park at 500 E Washington Avenue in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas Fort
22 Thursday May 2014
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Clark County, DUP, Forts, historic, Historic Markers, Las Vegas, Nevada
In 1855 Pres. Brigham Young appointed a company of men under the leadership of William Bringhurst to establish a colony at Las Vegas. The company left Salt Lake May 10 and arrived at Las Vegas June 14, 1855 and camped near this site. William Bringhurst was appointed President. Wm. S. Covert and Ira S. Miles, counselors. Sunday, June 17 they built a bowery and held their first religious services. The next day they began to build the fort, 150 feet square, with walls 14 feet high, 2 feet wide at base and 1 foot at top.
The text above is from Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #40, located at Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park at 500 E Washington Avenue in Las Vegas, Nevada
